retrieving files from Mac IIci

[macbeergeek2]

Thais,
What version of the Mac OS is running on that IIci? That could be a problem, too, if it's lower than 8.6.

[Jimmypoo]

As long as it is 7.5.5 (TCP/IP addition) it’s fine, and free to get from Apple on LOTS of Flops.

6.05 is fine to get files to a floppy drive OR even to a SCSI hard drive, that then gets stuffed into a PowerMac
6100.

If I recall correctly, the external SCSI works fine, and both are internal (ATA and SCSI). I had a lot (still have)
68040 machines and a few upgraded (StarMax) to G3 as well as some first run PPC 601 machines, and
I was constantly shifting drives back and forth rather than copy they over the network.

[timg]

Not sure what you guys are smoking, but a IIci can't boot OS8, let alone 9.

If he's running system 7, the easiest way to do what he wants, assuming the files are not too large, is to stuff them (Stuff-it archive), dump them onto floppies formatted for PC (system 7 could read/write to Mac and PC formatted floppies), then either find a PC with a floppy drive and email them or find a USB floppy that you can hook to the Mac.

Trying to get the IIci on the network is way too much work if it hasn't already been there.

And there were no internal ATA buses on 68K Macs.

[Thais]

The last time she used it was probably 1999, and before that in 1995, just to type in copy and print out pages for the publisher to work off of. No bells and whistles here, folks. It's real basic.

[timg]

Does she still have any printed copies? Maybe you could just scan and OCR them.

[Thais]

I'm holding out hope that a friend can help me pull the files off some floppies and make it easy, but thanks for the even newer suggestion to make use of a laptop. My husband has one.
I will definitely get back to you and let you know what works in the end.

[Jimmypoo]

timg wrote:

And there were no internal ATA buses on 68K Macs.

My Powerbook 540 begs to differ. It uses an ATA hard drive with an EXTERNAL SCSI connector.
The internals are run on ATA1 or ATA2.

Apple’s stats refer to the SCSI port, but not the internal port for the HD. Why? It really wasn’t user replaceable. In fact, nothing on that machine, including the extra 32MB of RAM or the 603 processor
upgrade was “user” replaceable unless you liked a lot of screws with no clear way of knowing where they
went back in - because the design looked good, but was genuinely poor for DIY.

But I did - and swapped PC ATA 2.5” drives with it as they grew larger, rather than Apple ROM’d Fujitsus.

[timg]

Well, I never had a Powerbook 540, so I'll take your word for it.

I do have a IIci and that for sure doesn't have an ATA bus in its original configuration.

[silvarios]

Jimmypoo wrote:
[quote=timg]

And there were no internal ATA buses on 68K Macs.

My Powerbook 540 begs to differ. It uses an ATA hard drive with an EXTERNAL SCSI connector.
The internals are run on ATA1 or ATA2.
I'm pretty sure the PowerBook 5xx used a SCSI interface, but some models shipped with an ATA drive in a SCSI adapter caddy.

timg,
My LC580 had a native ATA interface. I popped in a 120GB drive with Mac OS 8.1. Had to partition a small bit as HFS for booting, but the rest of the drive was HFS+. I think I ended up with 144MB RAM as well. Turned out to be a pretty awesome machine actually.

[Jimmypoo]

Nope. Internal drive was the first to ship an ATA. There was no caddy mating needed - no different than
the Pismo had except to secure it in place. I have 3 of them. Two 520Cs and a 540C.